DNA bending by the TrpI protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 5407-5413

  Piñeiro, Silvia ^a,b   Olekhnovich, Igor ^a   Gussin, Gary N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS GROUP;

EID: 1842301086     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.17.5407-5413.1997     Document Type: Article

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